User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 130 147
Rank change year-on-year +30 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 2 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.56% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.64% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 4
10th Percentile - £506 £410
25th Percentile - £517 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +7.32% +0.49%
75th Percentile - - £553
90th Percentile - £557 £557
South East median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88.50 - -
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £92.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD) falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Thames Valley

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +32 2 £700 - 2
User-Centered Design (UCD)
South East

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft